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This country is called +Sithonia (peninsula), Chalcidice, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Sithonia. The fleet held a straight course from the headland of Ampelus to the Canastraean headland, where +Pallene [23.8833,38.05] (Perseus) Pallene runs farthest out to sea, and received ships and men from the towns of what is now +Pallene [23.8833,38.05] (Perseus) Pallene but was formerly called Phlegra, namely, +Potidaea (deserted settlement), Chalcidice, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Potidaea, Aphytis, +Kavala [24.416,40.933] (inhabited place), Kavalla, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Neapolis, Aege, Therambus, +Scione [23.55,39.95] (Perseus) Scione, Mende, and Sane.
This country is called +Sithonia (peninsula), Chalcidice, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Sithonia. The fleet held a straight course from the headland of Ampelus to the Canastraean headland, where +Pallene [23.8833,38.05] (Perseus) Pallene runs farthest out to sea, and received ships and men from the towns of what is now +Pallene [23.8833,38.05] (Perseus) Pallene but was formerly called Phlegra, namely, +Potidaea (deserted settlement), Chalcidice, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Potidaea, Aphytis, +Kavala [24.416,40.933] (inhabited place), Kavalla, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Neapolis, Aege, Therambus, +Scione [23.55,39.95] (Perseus) Scione, Mende, and Sane.
[2] Sailing along this coast they made for the appointed place, taking troops from the towns adjacent to
+Pallene [23.8833,38.05] (Perseus) Pallene and near the
Thermaic gulf, of which the names are
Lipaxus,
Combrea,
Aesa,
Gigonus,
Campsa,
+Smela [31.9,49.25] (inhabited place), Cerkassy, Ukraine, Europe Smila,
Aenea; the territory of these cities is called
Crossaea to this day.
[3] From
Aenea, the last-named in my list of the towns, the course of the fleet lay from the
Thermaic gulf itself and the
Mygdonian territory until its voyage ended at
+Thessaloniki [22.933,40.633] (inhabited place), Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Therma, the place appointed, and the towns of
Sindus and
Chalestra, where it came to the river
+Vardar [22.833,40.583] (river), Europe Axius; this is the boundary, between the
Mygdonian and the
Bottiaean territory, in which are located the towns of
Ichnae and
+Pella [22.5333,40.7583] (Perseus) Pella on the narrow strip of coast.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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